Little girl’s life hanging on search for rare blood donor

The hunt is on to find suitable blood donors to help save a little Florida girl whose rare blood type is holding back her cancer treatment.

Zainab Mughal was diagnosed with neuroblastoma in October, an aggressive cancer that often occurs in children.

Doctors told her parents the tumor in the two-year-old’s abdomen had been growing for nearly half of her life and would need rapid and involved treatment, including two bone marrow transplants, chemotherapy and a series of blood transfusions.

“The results were really bad,” said her father, Raheel Mughal, in a video. “This was like the worst thing we were expecting.”

But a rare genetic mutation in Zainab’s blood is making an already heartbreaking diagnosis even harder to deal with.